The big healthcare news this week was the scheduled 10% cut to Medicare physician fees, which Congress almost managed to avert. Instead, implementation of the cuts has been put on hold for two more weeks. Bloggers have more:

Andrew Plemmons Pratt at Science Progress speaks with filmmaker Joanna Rudnick, who made a film about how she and others grapple with the knowledge that they’ve inherited a genetic mutation giving them an 85-90% chance of developing breast cancer.

Kevin Ummel at Global Development: Views from the Center is disappointed with India’s energy strategy plan, which fails to account for the country’s recent solar-power advances; he calculates that India’s current potential for low-cost, solar thermal power is at least six times greater than current power production.